Comments on: Video – Folders and Hard Drives in LR2

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:16:43 +0000

Matt,

I am using your dual external hard drive approach. I have been wondering if you use drive encryption to protect the data on your external drives. If so, do you just use sparse bundles or do you use a third party app?

Thanks

By: Neville

Neville — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:32:11 +0000

I cannot seem to get the video to work the link does not go anywhere?

Thanks
Neville

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:29:23 +0000

I’ve had a problem similar to Jack (#28, 10/28/08), namely, a single external drive (on which I’m storing the current catalog’s images) appears twice in the folders panel. I’m not sure when it started happening, but, unlike Jack, it doesn’t seemed to be tied just to the use of external (CS4) editing. I have tried synchronizing the top-level folder containing all the image files, but it doesn’t seem to have synchronized all the xml data (ratings, color flags, edits, IPTC data, etc.) In some cases, the most current/complete data for an image shows in one “folder”, at other times, the other folder. I don’t want to lose the considerable work I’ve done on the files (about 8,000 in total), so I have been proceeding very carefully. I’m planning next to export one of the folders as a catalog and then removing that “folder” from the catalog and re-importing in into the other. Not sure yet just how I am going to do that. Reloading a backed-up version of the catalog doesn’t look feasible at this point, since I have backed up multiple times since the double folder problem appeared.

Any thoughts, ideas, recommendations.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:37:31 +0000

Matt, Want to know if I’m using a notebook and a desktop tower when I make adjustments on my tower will the history and the development adjustments be available when I open the same file later on the notebook. If so, how? (It gets a little confusing you know.) If you have addressed this issue before, could you direct me to the link and if you haven’t, could you possibly address it in a new tip? How about multiple externals (for redundancy & back-up purposes) ?
Thanks, Michel

By: Peter Sjöström

Peter Sjöström — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:48:05 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for putting together these great tutorials!

I have a workflow question:
I download all my images from the camera to my local HD on my laptop through LR2. I then periodically MOVE the parentfolder ( e.g. 2009/date/date etc) to my external HD to have the folderstructure of my original RAW files intact and backed up.

Now, I wish to have all my photos 8 (more than 7000 of them) converted into low res JPEGs on my local HD on my laptop so I can bring it with me and still have acess to all my photos albeit in lesser quality.

To recap….first move all my originals onto external HD and then also being able to have all photos (but in lowres JPEG) with the same folder structure om my local HD on my laptop. How do I do this in the smartest way so I dont get a lot of problems.

Thanks for answering this question.

Best,
Peter Sjostrom, Sweden

By: D Hanley

D Hanley — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:19:15 +0000

Matt,
I download originals (NEF) onto portable hard drive. Then I would like to import into LR 2 as dng. Wouldn’t that create a new set of files on my computer’s hard drive? I have Scott’s book that mentions importing into LR as dng. and keep ending up with multiple copies of images. Gets too confusing.
Thanks

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:01:11 +0000

Hi Mat,

What External Portable Drive will you recommend or personally use? I have a Desktop PC and a G4 powerbook so I want to use something that will work on both and can take with me on the go.. I was looking into the FREEAGENT GO 500GB.

let me know your thoughts..

Thanks

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:02:24 +0000

Hi Matt,

Great tutorial! I was wondering if you could help me answer this question: I have one drive with all my photo’s – backup’s of all originals are stored on a NAS.

This drive with all my photos shows up twice(!) – so I have two volume browsers pointing to the same drive. The second showed up after I (from Lightroom 2) edited a photo in PS CS3: the second Volume Browser shows only photo’s that have been edited in Photoshop.

Until today that is… Today I upgraded to CS4, edited a photo, same way I have been doing, and was surprised to see that the edited photo now is listed under the first Volume Browser, and in fact stacked with the original – which I BTW prefer.

Now to my question: why is LR behaving differently when editing photos with CS3 vs CS4? And how can this behavior be changed? I have not been able to find a setting yet, where edited photo’s are stored, and whether or not they need to be stacked etc. And how can I move the CS3 edited photo’s so they are stacked with their originals as well?

Thanks again for another great tutorial, and for your feedback.

Jack

PS: please reply to my email address

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:02:41 +0000

Hi Matt,

The video’s great, but it doesn’t match with what happens on my LR2.

Your system is neat, eg, your main HD simply shows ‘desktop’ then your folders. Mine show a folder, then ‘users’, then ‘geoff wilson’, then ‘desktop’, then all my folders, pics etc – this didn’t happen in LR1 – how can I sort this out.

The other problem is that my external HD appear down the bottom of the Folders panel under ‘Volumes’, not neatly as yours at the top under their specific name with the little green.

Everything is there, all my photos, and I can find them, but it is a bit of a mess. Any help is appreciated

Geoff

By: fiddlergene

fiddlergene — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Matt

Will you be at the photoplus expo in NYC? I’m tired of seeing Scott all the time.